Seams on clothing

Equanim

Hi all,

I'm working on a sculpt and was wondering if anyone has any tips on adjoining pieces of fabric. Here's a good example:

How would you approach this? Would you sculpt (or model) some of the panels independently, do it as one mesh and extract the panels, or just keep it as one mesh and sculpt with very careful masking?

I'm not really expecting any "right" answer here, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

CheeseOnToast

For seams that noticeably overlap like that, I usually mask off the side that will be underneath. You can then use a combo of sculpting and little nudges with a move brush to make the unmasked part overlap. If you've been careful in your base mesh creation you can have these panels represented in the lowest subdivision, and use them to easily create polygroups for masking.

LRoy

Gavin did a really nice tutorial on this.

http://www.3dtotal.com/index_tutorial_detailed.php?id=1872#.VikSzX6rRaQ